LONDON (6 July 2006) – The international law firm Dorsey & Whitney today announced that Mark Taylor and Colina Greenway are joining the firm’s London office. Mark will join Dorsey as a partner in the London office; he will focus on public equity work, including initial and secondary public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and other U.K. and international corporate transactions. Colina has joined Dorsey as a consultant solicitor; she will be advising primarily on U.K. and international employment law issues.
Mark Taylor, a long-standing partner of DLA Piper, has extensive corporate experience and is highly regarded in the corporate finance community. He concentrates his practice on flotations and M&A work and has been lead partner on a number of substantial takeover bids. Mark is also experienced in corporate restructurings, UK and international joint ventures, and private equity. He recently led the DLA Piper team that advised Ambrian Partners Limited in its capacity as nominated adviser and broker on the successful AIM flotation of the Australian company Monto Minerals Limited.
Paul Klaas, the managing partner of Dorsey’s London office, said: “Our Corporate Group is having a great year in London already, with a booming capital markets practice, multiple M&A transactions, emerging companies financings, and major deals particularly for our English, American, Indian, and Scandinavian clients. Mark bolsters our capabilities in London, and he fits perfectly with our Corporate Group worldwide. He is an excellent, energetic, and successful lawyer. We look forward to Mark helping us to continue growing and broadening our Corporate practice here and abroad.”
Colina Greenway, formerly a director at McGrigors, is a prominent U.K. employment law specialist. She has 15 years of experience advising employers in various industry sectors, with special experience in cross-border and global employee relations issues. She is a frequent commentator in The Times, the Financial Times, and on the BBC on employment law developments. Colina will practice in Dorsey’s London office.
“Colina is a world-class employment lawyer, with a strong combination of U.K. employment law knowledge and cross-border experience,” said Paul Klaas. “Our U.K. clients, our U.S. clients with employees in the U.K., and our cross-border mergers and acquisitions lawyers will all benefit from her advice.”
Mark and Colina join Dorsey’s U.K. offices shortly after the firm attracted two new associates, Matthew Blower (formerly of Slaughter and May) in the Trial Group and Johanna O’Shea (formerly of Coudert Brothers) in the Corporate Group. It continues a trend of strategic and significant lateral hires started last year with the arrival of seven new lawyers including two partners: Nick Burkill, previously partner and head of commercial disputes at Taylor Wessing, and John Chrisman, a corporate partner from Coudert Brothers.
Dorsey has also grown its New York office significantly this month with the addition of three corporate trust partners, Ellen J. Bickal, Anthony M. Harvin and David J. Fernandez. The three new partners have served as legal counsel to some of the largest corporate trust service providers in the world. They were previously with Emmet, Marvin & Martin, LLP, in New York.
“The addition of Ellen, Tony and David to our existing Corporate Trust practice is an excellent fit that enables Dorsey to increase and strengthen the range of services offered to corporate trust service providers. They advance our goal of becoming the premier provider of legal services to the corporate trust industry domestically and globally,” said Robert J. Dwyer, Jr., partner-in-charge of the New York office.